[17628] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.25Tue: new linux-athena boxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Mar 6 10:54:35 2000
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 06 Mar 2000 10:54:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jonathon Weiss's message of "Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:24:48 -0500"
Message-ID: <u1hd7p8qekr.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > also, is it me, or is the video extremely slow on the new linux
> > athena boxes... the old sparcs are faster at moving windows around,
> > but these machines are running at 550 mhz.
>
> I hadn't noticed it personally. Can you describe exactly what you are
> doing when you see the slowness?
Those problems were, I think, related to the period where the acroread
printing bug would cause spinning lpr proccesses. I would regularly
see workstations with ten spinning lprs, and on those most certainly
the video would behave very slowly.
